Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...running race is the oldest form of human athletic game. It is indubitable that barefoot Neolithic sprinters tore through the fields and underbrush in violent competition ages before the laced sandals of Spartan contestants were to be seen pounding along mountain roads in prolonged endurance tests; and the modern spiked shoe is stiil further removed from those vigorous days. The wonder of all this is that each year, each week, produces new records, the old achievements being displaced by reduced time, the most ancient of sports being improved upon with startling regularity...
...strong little sons move freely about the town, one in particular, Walt, the second oldest, bringing home much news of teamsters and ferryboatmen, or?the gravity gone from his ruddy-brown face, his tar-black hair cocked with excitement?of how the Marquis de Lafayette picked him up and kissed...
...three days, beginning today, Chicago is to be host to 1,000 Harvard men, here to attend the twenty eighth meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs. It is pleasant to find a significance in this entertainment by the lusty young western city of representative of America's oldest and most distinguished university. The guests who come to Chicago today can claim an academic tradition 201 years older than Chicago as a city...
...Occidental chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will be added to the 102 already established chapters of the oldest national fraternity in America. It has been approved, on the basis of the standards, organization, purpose and ideals of the western college by the six chapters in the so-called western district, and by the Phi Beta Kappa senate and the Triennial Council, both of which bodies were in session last summer...
Housed in tomblike buildings, "Bones" and "Keys," the two oldest** Yale orders, have given rise to a wealth of legend and speculation among the uninitiated, to the shrewdness or folly of which none but the sphinxlike brotherhoods could testify. So closely are their secrets kept that even the janitors of their sanctuaries must be made members and sworn to silence. So jealously are their very names preserved that the members, even as middle-aged and greying men, will affect deafness or stony inattention when an outsider utters a word or question relevant to the subject. If the reference or question...